Guess who was in South Korea when martial law was imposed by South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol on December 3?
NoonTalk Media head honcho Dasmond Koh.
It was the first time martial law was introduced in Korea since 1979 and it lasted six hours before lawmakers voted to lift it during a Cabinet meeting.
According to an interview with Chinese media zaobao.sg, Dasmond, 52, was on a work trip in Seoul with his NoonTalk Media artistes Kevin Tan and Yang Yan.
They had just ended work and were having dinner with a few Korean friends who started whispering among themselves nervously all of a sudden.
“They looked very stern and one of them said the South Korean president had just imposed martial law,” he recalled.
His friends were worried that a military strike would take place.
After assessing the situation, Dasmond decided to end the dinner early and head back to the hotel for safety reasons.
He immediately turned the news on when he reached his room.
Dasmond was watching the news while giving the interview, and he told the reporter that tear-gas grenades were thrown to disperse the crowd, most likely referring to the protests that took place outside the National Assembly in Seoul.
“There’s a bit of commotion out there,” added Dasmond.
Now that the crisis has been averted, Dasmond, together with Kevin and Yang Yan, will be returning to Singapore as planned tomorrow (Dec 5).